As General Motors, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and other major automobile manufacturers prepare to bring hydrogen cars to market by 2015, the availability and sustainability of the hydrogen fuel to power them remains an issue.
Later this month, what is...

The Orange County Great Park once again raised the Irvine's City Council's hackles.
The carousel and balloon rides starred prominently at Tuesday's meeting, as did the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
These items, pulled from the meeting's...

Irvine's new City Council majority has positioned itself to clean house on one of the city's signature projects: the Great Park, intended to be the century's landmark municipal park.
Since its inception more than a decade ago, 200 of the planned 1,347...

Safety, education, a city library and local business were the linchpins of Irvine Mayor Steven S. Choi's first State of the City address Tuesday.
Choi, flanked by the rest of the council, started by offering his condolences to the victims of former...

Speakers and exhibitors are needed for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 and XPO.
The Irvine-based Orange County Great Park has been selected to host the October event, which will be organized outside Washington, D.C., for the first time.
Speakers are requested to provide educational talks on the clean, renewable and efficient theme of the XPO during the Powerful Ideas Symposium. Exhibitors can spotlight services or products offered by their companies at indoor and outdoor booths....

We've all seen them: the blue signs announcing a nearby electric-car charging station. Follow the arrows, and most of them lead to old technology. Many don't even work.
But that's about to change, and change quickly, as the first mass-market electric cars from Nissan, General Motors, SmartCar, Ford, Fiat and other manufacturers hit U.S. roads this winter.
South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa recently became one of the first businesses in the region with a publicly accessible charging station for electric...